*After granting a rare interview, Caroline Astor instructed her maid to offer Nixola Greeley-Smith, a reporter for the New York World, a $2 tip for her trouble. The reporter was Horace Greeley’s granddaughter, and she had a ready answer (much polished in the retelling). “Will you deliver a message exactly as I give it to you?” she said to the maid. “Tell Mrs. Astor she not only forgets who I am, but she forgets who she is. Give her back the two dollars with my compliments and tell her that when John Jacob Astor was skinning rabbits my grandfather was getting out the Tribune and was one of the foremost citizens of New York.”